Mounting for machine-guns.



No. 634,390 Patented Got. 3, I899.

' G. T. BUCKHAM &. C. A. LARSSUN.

PWIOUNTING FOR MACHINE GUNS.

( Application filed July 31, 1899.)

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No. 634,390. Pateniied Oct. 3, I899. e. T. BUCKHAM & c. A. massow.

MOUNTING FUR MACHINE GUNS.

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SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND.

MOUNTING FOR MACHINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,390, dated October 3, 1899. Application filed July 31, 1899. Serial No. 725,660. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that We, GEORGE THOMAS BUCKHAM and CARL ALFRED LARssoN, citi- 'zens of England, residing at No. 32 Victoria street, Westminster, London, England, have invented a certain new and useful Mounting for a Machine-Gun, (for which we have aplied for a patent in Great Britain, dated anuary 6, 1899, No. 36%,) of which the folre lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a light portable allaronnd-fire mounting for a machine-gun, so arranged that it can be at once converted t '5 mounting the gun, and then two men can conveniently carry the gun and mounting a considerable distance over ground impassable for a wheeled carriage.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view of a gun and mounting according to this invention in condition for firing. Fig. 2 is a side view of the gun and mounting in condition for being carried. Fig. 3 is a plan of the upper part of the mounting.

Fig. '4 is an end view of the upper part of themounting with ammunition-box. Fig. 5 is a side view showing the legs folded together. Fig. 0 is a transverse section showing the trunnions and their sleeve. Fig. 7 isa plan,

partly sectional, of the upper part of the mounting.

The trunnions rest in hearings in a forkhead a, the trunnions and bearings being so arranged, as shown in Fig. U, that on drawing 3 5 back a spring.bolt 7), which passes through a sleeve 0 and has a head (1 and a cap e, which constitute the trunnions proper, these can be raised out of the hearings in a through a forwardly-inclined gap, and the gun can thus be readily removed from the mounting. The gun can be held at any desired elevation by a wedge f, which passes through the forkhead ct and has a handle g within reach of the gunner at the rear of the gun. The forkhead a, to which the ammunition-box h is attached so as to revolve with it, turns upon a pivot i on an inverted fork j, and the pivotbearing is provided with a clamping-screw and handle is to hold the gun trained in any desired direction. so

In the limbs of the inverted fork j are pivoted two pairs of legs, the one pair Z and the other pair m, the ends of which are 'made as flat shoes 11, with spikes to prevent slipping on hard ground. The two legs of each pair spread out from a socket, which is pivoted in the limbs of the inverted fork j and has an arm 8 projecting upward from the socket of the legs Z, and arm tfrom the socket of the legs from firing to portable condition without disan. These two arms 3 and t cross each other '60 Side b-y-side. The arm I? has a slot 1), partly straight and partly curved, in which is engaged a pin 1), projecting laterally from the arm 5. VVhen this pin 1) is in the straight part of the slot 0, a pin q is passed through it and through holes in the checks of the inverted fork j, the arms 5 and tbeing thus held in such position that both pairs of legs land in extend obliquely to the ground, as shown in Fig. 1. When the gun has to be carried, the legs Z and mand their arms 3 and t are moved to the position shown in Fig. 2, the legs extending horizontally, the one pair m to the front and the other pair 1 to the rear,

each pair in position to be carried by the hands of one man. In this case the pin q is put through lower holes in the checks of j.

Through the arm 8, projecting up from the legs I, there is another hole r, through which the pin (1 is passed to hold the legs in the posi- 8o tion-shown in Fig. 5, suitable for being carried against the shoulder.

Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means we know of carrying the same into practical eifect, we claim- A mounting for a machine-gun coinprisinga pair of removable trunnions in gapped bearings in the limbs of a fork, an inverted fork in which the trunnion-fork is pivoted, and to 0 which are pivoted a pair of sockets having each a pair of legs projecting obliquely from them, arms of these sockets arranged side by side between the cheeks of the inverted fork, the one arm-having a laterally-projecting pin engaged in a curved slot'in the other arm, and i a removable pin for holding the arms and legs in any one of three positions, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE THOMAS BUCKHAM. CARL ALFRED LARSSON.

"Witnesses:

HENRY KING, 'WALTER H; REGNER. 

